Malcolm has been working as a fulltime equivalent GP in the inner eastern suburbs since 1993 and has a special interest in aged care medicine and chronic disease management. He was practice principal at his own General Practice for 13 years and merged his practice into the IPN network in 2014. Since joining IPN he has been part of the leadership group responsible for the development and implementation of their chronic disease program (Inca) and improving networking and teambuilding in our practices. He is the Medical Director for the 26 IPN medical centres in Victoria and Consultant Clinical Director of Sonic Clinical Trials.
Over the past two years he has been working with general practices within and without the IPN network to develop a research friendly group of practices to better enable university-based researchers to find patients for their studies, and for clinical trials.
Malcolm is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of General Practice and teacher at Melbourne Medical School since 2000. He is a member of the GP advisory Community of Practice and part of the team who developed the MD program for the University of Melbourne. He is an inaugural Member of the Melbourne Medical School's Academy of Clinical Teachers, as well as a clinical teacher at Monash Medical School, the University of New England, and has hosted early career GPs and medical students from China, Singapore and Europe at the practice.
He is an early career researcher at the department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School. He has been a committee member of VicREN (the community GP research network that engages with over 130 GPs in Victoria) since 2008 and is building a research career at the University of Melbourne Department of General Practice, most recently in translation of primary care cancer research into general practice, as well as data driven quality improvement for GPs.
Malcolm holds a number of external appointments including PC4 Advisory Committee, NPS MedicineInsight Data Governance Committee, PC4 Advisory Committee, Polar Data Governance Committees, Eastern Melbourne PHN Clinical Council, Sonic Education, Global Respiratory Infection Partnership (GRIP), Therapeutic Guidelines Respiratory guidelines review committee, & GP advocate at the annual Royal Australasian College of Surgeons "Preparation for Practice",
He has had extensive experience in medical journalism as a columnist for a number of local and national magazines. He is the author of two books "What's the Alternative" Melbourne University Press 2005 – co-authored by Terry Robson – and "Doctor in the House” Five Mile Press 2008, as well as an editor for several other publications.
Special interests: wine, cooking and hockey.